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—mdash

A fully customisable dashboard for your browser.

Build Setup

# install dependencies
npm install

# serve with hot reload at localhost:8080
npm run dev

# build for production with minification
npm run build

# Copy `manifest.json` into the `/dist folder
# install in chrome by dragging and dropping the /dist folder in chrome://extensions

Making your own widget

Go to src/components/widgets/ and make a <your_widget_name>.vue file. See clock.vue and example.vue for examples.

Your vue component needs to have a manifest parameter with the following structure:

//  src/components/widgets/mywidget.vue
const widget_name = 'mywidget';
const manifest =  {
                    name: widget_name,       //  widget name same as file name
                    description: 'My amazing widget',
                    settings: {             //  optional settings
                      optionOne:{
                        name: 'First option',
                        value: true,
                        tooltip: 'An optional tooltip to explain more.',
                        type: 'boolean',
                      },
                      optionTwo:{
                        name: 'The second choice',
                        value: 'This is a string',
                        type: 'string',
                      }
                    },
                    layout: {               //  default layout
                      i: widget_name,        //  Must be the same name as above
                      x: 3,
                      y: 1,
                      w: 6,
                      h: 3,
                    },
                  };

• More info on layout here.
• layout determines the initial position and size of your widget on the dashboard.

Don't forget to add manifest to your component.

//  src/components/widgets/mywidget.vue
export default {
  name: manifest.name,
  ...
  manifest: manifest,
  ...
}

Open src/components/widgets/index.js and add your widget there.

//  src/components/widgets/index.js
export { default as mywidget } from './mywidget.vue' //  Add your widget here.
export { default as widget1 } from './widget1.vue'
export { default as widget2 } from './widget2.vue'
...
export { default as widgetN } from './widgetN.vue'
//                    ^                   ^
//  All names here MUST be the same as the name in the manifest.
//  Use underscores for names with spaces.

Storage

import storage from '/src/helpers/storage';

//  save arbitrary data for your widget to localStorage
storage.set('my_widget', data);

//  get that data.
storage.get('my_widget', data);

Reactive store (Vuex)

import store from '/src/store';

computed:{
  //  get dark mode flag from mdash settings. 
  //  (Kind of important to make your widget react to user selecting dark mode)
  dark(){
    return store.getters.settings.mdash.dark.value;
  }
}

Settings

The settings key in the manifest allows you to let users change and set certain preferences for your widget. These options will appear in the settings tab. This is different from normal getting and setting storage, since those data won't appear in the settings tab.

import store from '/src/store'

//  get settings for your widget
data: {
  settings: store.getters.settings[manifest.name]; //  manifest should have been already defined above.
 }

//  Watch for changes
watch: {
  settings: {
    handler(val){
      //  do stuff when settings change.
      console.log('These are the new settings: '+val);
    }
    deep: true,   //  watch changes on ALL object properties.
  },
},

Use store.getters.settings.<widget_name>.<setting>.value to access saved settings for your own widget. Or store.getters.settings.mdash.<setting>.value for mdash settings. There is no need to set settings since the defaults in the manifest will be loaded automatically.

//  manifest
settings: {             
            optionOne:{
              name: 'First option',             //  a human readable label for this setting    
              value: true,                      //  default value (this will be changed by the user)
              tooltip: 'This is a tooltip.',    //  tooltip to display more info about the setting
              type: 'boolean',                  //  type of setting: boolean, string, or color (for colorpicker).
            }

Other notes

For now you have to use localStorage.clear() every time you make a change to your widget's manifest for changes to take effect (basically resetting everything).

Widget names have to be unique, check widgets/index.js to make sure yours is unique.

To do

• Add a way to select background image
• More widgets
  • Prayer time
  • Quotes
  • To do list
  • Suggest more! (Make a github issue)